Dan Walsh (banjo player)

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Dan Walsh is a British banjoist[1][2] and guitarist.[3] He is known for the wide variety of banjo techniques he includes in his performances,[4] and for his particular skill at clawhammer style banjo.[5]

Walsh has performed as a duo with harmonica player Will Pound.[6] He also played on the folk musician Sunjay's self-titled album in 2014.[7] In 2014 he joined The Urban Folk Quartet.[8] The group's album The Escape, was included in the Telegraph's list of Best Albums of 2015.[9]

Discography[edit]

  • Tomorrow's Still to Come, 2009[10]
  • Come What May, 2013, with Clutching at Straws[11]
  • Sunjay, 2014, with Sunjay
  • Incidents and Accidents, 2015[10][12]
  • The Escape, 2015, with Urban Folk Quartet
  • Live III, 2016, with Urban Folk Quartet
  • Verging on the Perpendicular, 2017[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dan Walsh is bringing the banjo into a new world of adventure". Oxford Mail, Charlotte Krol 27 March 2014
  2. ^ "Dan Walsh - banjo player". Perry Spiller, BBC Radio 18 October 2013
  3. ^ "BANJOMONIUM! AND DAN’S THE MAN TO THRILL THE CROWDS". Folk Wales Online Magazine. 18 March 2015
  4. ^ "Dan Walsh – Old Cinema Launderette (Durham, UK – March 8, 2014)". No Depression, by Steven Proctor, 17 March 2014
  5. ^ "Cambridge Folk Festival Cherry Hinton, Cambridge". Music News, 4 August 2015 Rob and Carole Joyce
  6. ^ "DAN WALSH - Incidents & Accidents". review from Living Tradition UK, Dave Beeby
  7. ^ "Sunjay: Sunjay, album review". The Telegraph, Martin Chilton, 17 Sep 2014
  8. ^ "Interview: Urban Folk Quartet" Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Nottingham Post, 28 April 2014
  9. ^ "Best Folk Music Albums of 2015".
  10. ^ a b "Dan Walsh – Incidents & Accidents". Folk Radio UK, by Simon Holland on 9 March 2015
  11. ^ "Clutching at Straws Come What May". Music News, review 7 December 2013 by Andy Snipper
  12. ^ "‘Incidents & Accidents’ by Dan Walsh – an outpouring of expansion and innovation" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. FolkWords Reviews, 13 February 2015
  13. ^ Blake, Thomas (13 April 2017). "DAN WALSH: VERGING ON THE PERPENDICULAR". Folk Radio. Retrieved 6 November 2019.